Failed Films With Potential

[Doctor Jones]

Either or had great potential. Robin Williams as Riddler in Burton's would have been amazing. To see where Keaton's bruce would have gone after the events of BR would have been very interesting. BR felt very much like a Burton film and I would have liked to see the next part of that. The Shumacher one that got hacked to pieces had great potential. The original script is enough good too.

 

[Doctor Jones]

There probably would have been Wookies on Endor enslaved to build the Emperor's new custom star destroyer to tempt Luke with, Han and Leia would have been put there after escaping Jabba's Palace, Luke goes to the volcanic core of Coruscant to meet the Emperor, Ben Kenobi comes back to life for awhile to fight the Emperor, Vader sacrifices himself in a pool of magma to destroy the Emperor.

Did you just make this up?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

I did like the Return of the Jedi that we got, though it had some script problems. Like how Han and Lando automatically made-up during the Sarlac pit scene.

Or how Boba Fett died like a fool. I hated that even as a kid.

Chewi probably get Han up to date about Lando actions to save him.
When RotJ came out Boba Fett wasn't the loved character he became later on, we only saw him quickly in ESB and only knew his name in RotJ.

 

[8wid]

Did you just make this up?

Nope. Most of it is from Lucas' first drafts of Revenge of the Jedi, the only things not found there is the Emperor's personal Star Destroyer which is only a rumor I've heard. Instead, twin Death Stars guard over Coruscant that Luke tricks into firing on each other at the same time. The Wookies were to be slaves on Endor for the shield generator on Endor. Plus Yoda appears as a ghost and the Emperor also chokes out Vader when he comes barging into his throne room in one scene.

An imperial cou in what was essentially Episode III and a blockade of Star Destroyers is also in his back-story drafts.

Some concept art for when Luke is taken to the Imperial City

 

[Doctor Jones]

That sounds pretty damn cool. And better than what we got. Although thankfully the title changed.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

Ironman 2
Superman Returns
Sucker Punch
Green Lantern
Terminator Salvation
The other Superman sequels
The Batman sequels (Batman Forever and Batman & Robin)
Ghost Rider
Spiderman 3
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

No one can argue that these movies couldn't have been better than they are.

 

[Dark Victory]

Even though I posted my views earlier, the idea of the thread's pretty silly. All movies have a chance to be something good.

 

[Sawyer]

Tim Burton's Scooby Doo.

And George A. Romero's The Stand. Good God, that would've been beautiful.

 

[DarKush]

Okay, I'm being pretty subjective here in terms of 'success' and 'failure'. I'm not sure what the box office take for all these films were, but I think most underperformed or I thought they would or should've done better.

Blade Trinity
The Spirit
Punisher War Zone
Green Lantern
Terminator Salvation
Ghost Rider
Incredible Hulk
Hulk
Lost in Space
Astro Boy
Priest
Chronicles of Riddick
Whiteout
The Losers
The A-Team
Beowulf
Tron Legacy
Godzilla
Superman Returns

 

[Deaths Head II]

Jumper would have been fantastic had it focused on Jamie Bell's character. He was freakin great in that movie

I agree. He also had the coolest fight scenes too.

I'll go with the Matrix. I heard the original idea for the trilogy was to have a prequel like that one short in Animatrix showing how the war between humans and robots took place before a third film showing how the Matrix finally gets taken down. From what I heard though the studio didn't want to lose all their big actors for a prequel like that. Which is a shame. The short in the Animatrix alone was way better then what we got.

 

[enterthemadness]

Alone in the dark. Boll pulled an idiotic move and combined two scripts together...and then may have ruined them even more. Granted I find it b movie watchable. Good dop, decent action and acting...

 

[Metallo]

Tim Burton's Scooby Doo.

I didn't even know about that one.

And George A. Romero's The Stand. Good God, that would've been beautiful.

...and George A Romeros Resident Evil. I thought the one we got was ok but Romero on this franchise...its just too tempting for me to pass up thinking about it.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Terminator Salvation
Eagle Eye
Miami Vice

 

[8wid]

That sounds pretty damn cool. And better than what we got. Although thankfully the title changed.

Watch the slave mines from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country because it sort of looks like where Leia, Chewbaca, and the droids would have gone to be slaves with the Wookies on Endor. Han either died or would join them. Lando escapes and rejoins the Rebellion, Luke is taken to Imperial City aka Coruscant.

 

[cherokeesam]

Several posters have mentioned Sucker Punch, and I agree. This movie was surprisingly far better than I expected, but it also fell far, far short of its potential. If Snyder had explored the three layers of reality a little further, and rooted the fantasy scenes with real-world, real-time counterparts in the asylum, and actually given Baby Doll a more fleshed-out personality beyond just the rape-avenger stereotype, I honestly think this could have become an absolutely *great* prison/asylum escape movie in the vein of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Cool Hand Luke.

 

[lespaul59]

Lost In Space - It was a fun Sci-Fi movie. Gary Oldman was solid and entertaining as always and Matt Le Blanc surprisingly didn't do too bad with the action hero role. William Hurt, Mimi Rogers and Heather Graham were also solid. Would of been cool to have seen the sequels they had planned.

Solomon Kane - Surpriesed it couldn't get a theatre release in the U.S. its the movie Van Helsing should of been. I have seen far worst movies get a cinematic opening. It got 83% on Rotten Tomatoes and I would give it 7/10. The 2nd half of the movie is a slight let down and a bit cliche also it didn't really need to be an origin story in the first film. Solomon Kane is like the man with no name travelling around kick ass you could say who he is in a sequel. His fellow Robert C. Howard character Conan is getting a release so perhaps that will generate intrest in folks checking out his other creations movie.

They're still trying to get a theater release in the US.

 

[echostation]

**** Dune by Scott... I would pay top buck to see Jodorowski's Dune. the production art and the scale of the film and the way it looks are unlike anything I've ever seen... it would have been fantastic at least in terms of visuals... I DREAM the day someone would make a jodorowski based Dune film

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I Robot
GI Joe
Van Helsing
DragonBall Evolution
Matrix sequels

 

[Vapor]

I'd say Waterworld is a good example.

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Agree with both of these. Also adding Van Helsing and Lost in Space.

All 4 of these are fun IMO and I enjoy watching them from time to time but between all 4 there is a LOT of wasted potential IMO.

And 2 films that never happened but had a lot of potential IMO - Bioshock and Thundercats.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Isn't jumper suppose to still be getting a sequel?
It ending on cliffhanger.

 

[bullets]

Isn't jumper suppose to still be getting a sequel?
It ending on cliffhanger.

This was the last thing I heard about it...
http://collider.com/hayden-christensen-jumper-2-sequel/44806/

I read a few times Jumper 2 was being produced but I'm not expecting anything to come of it.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Perfect Creature. There's a reason why this name doesn't ring any bells. And it's not because they cut my scene either.

Wait, you were in a movie and your scene got cut? Jeez, that's harsh.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Solomon Kane - Surpriesed it couldn't get a theatre release in the U.S. its the movie Van Helsing should of been. I have seen far worst movies get a cinematic opening. It got 83% on Rotten Tomatoes and I would give it 7/10. The 2nd half of the movie is a slight let down and a bit cliche also it didn't really need to be an origin story in the first film. Solomon Kane is like the man with no name travelling around kick ass you could say who he is in a sequel. His fellow Robert C. Howard character Conan is getting a release so perhaps that will generate intrest in folks checking out his other creations movie.

I know, right? I've seen the movie, and it's FANTASTIC! Fortunately, I'm hearing talk of an eventual announcement later this year of a US release date! Can't WAIT!

 

[MOVIELORD101]

The Fantastic Four movies (BOTH of them, ESPECIALLY the sequel)- God, Tim Story is a **** director! Here's a quick list of what he did wrong:

* Casting Jessica Alba as Sue Storm just for the sake of doing those damn nudity gags was just plain stupid and made him look like a COMPLETE freaking pervert (VERY unprofessional of him, mind you). Also, the guys he cast as Reed and Dr. Doom can't act their way out of a adamantium box, let alone a wet paper bag.

* His biggest mistake: making Galactus into a purple cloud of anti-matter in the second movie (or at least, something like anti-matter) instead of mo-caping some dude and keeping the character as a giant guy in a purple outfit LIKE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE!

* Lastly, I know the third movie didn't happen, but lord knows what he would've done to screw up Black Panther. I shudder to think at the horrific possibilites.

 

[Lord]

The 2nd Fantastic Four was still bad but much better than the 1st movie (infinitelly better), and making Galactus a giant cloud was the producers idea